Garment-supporter



(No Model.)

S. B. FERRIS. GARMENT SUPPORTER.

No. 449,113. Patented Mar. 31, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SHERlVOOD B. FERRIS, OF LAKEYVOOD, NElV JERSEY.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,113, dated March 31, 1891.

Application filed July 27, 1889. Serial No. 318,880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SHERWOOD B. FERRIs, of Lakewood, Ocean county, New Jersey, have invented an Improved Garment-Supporter, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of garment-supporters wherein a part of the garment is held in a narrow slot, and it has for its object to so improve the construction of supporters that the garment will be held securely at all times.

The invention consists, essentially, in a supporter having two inwardly-converging slots, into which parts of the garment are to be placed, so as to retain the fastener on the garment.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a face view of my improved garment-supporter, shown in position on a garment. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the supporter detached from the garment; and Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are detail views showing different arrangements of supporters.

In the drawings, the letter A indicates the supporter, which is shown made of a single piece of wire having a wide opening a at its upper part, into which the part of the garment to be supported may be passed. The upper cross-piece b of the supporter A is adapted to receive a tape B, by which the supporter is held and carried.

At the lower part the supporterA is curved inwardly, and the sides d of the support-er are connected by a loop e. The loop 6 for a certain distance substantially follows the curve of the sides d, whereby two inwardly-converging narrow slots f are formed. These slots f are adapted to receive part of the garmcntD, so as to hold the same. The loop 6,

between the sides (Z, may have any desired shape. In Figs. 1 and 2 it is substantially circular, whereby a sort of button-head is formed. In Fig. 3 the loop e is oval-shaped, while in Fig. 4 the loop e has a double curve. In Fig. 5 part of the loop 6 is straight and about parallel with the tape-receiving crosspiece I). The loop 6 in all the above cases forms a sort of button-head, over which part of the garment may be wrapped. In what ever shape the loop 6 may be bent a portion of it on each side should follow substantially the curve of the side (1 for a distance, so that the two inwardly converging or approaching slots f will be formed.

In all the figures the part of the supporter having the slotsfis on a plane different from the upper part of the supporter, so that the whole of the supporter will not come against the body of the wearer, as clearly shown by the side view, Fig. 7.

To connect the garment D to the supporter, a portion of the garment is passed into the opening a and drawn down into the two converging slots f, thereby leaving a portion 9 of the garment over the button-loop e. The draft now applied to the garment not only comes on the parts in the slots f, but is dis tributed as well over the part 9 on the loop e. By this means the strain on one part of the garment, as in the ordinary supporter, is relieved and the danger of tearing the garment is reduced, while the parts will remain securely connected.

Instead of the supporter being made of wire, it may be stamped out of thin metal in the desired shape or made in any other desired manner. g

It is evident that the slotsf can be formed even if the loop e does not extend entirely across the supporter, as in Fig. 5.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is The supporter A, constructed of the upper cross-piece b, inwardly-curved sides (1, and

curved loop e, connecting the same, so as to form between the parts I), cl, and e the wide opening a, the said loop c being close to and parallel with the sides cl, where it joins the same, but diverging therefrom near its middle, thereby forming the flaring mouths, and slotsf, said loop and adjacent sides'd being laterally bent, substantially as described.

SHERWOOD B. FERRIS. Witnesses:

HARRY M. TURK, T. F. 1301mm, 

